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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Biden's Approval Hits 33 Percent; Democrats Want 2024 Options, Poll Shows — With the country gripped by a pervasive sense of pessimism, the president is hemorrhaging support. — President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Dueling Weaknesses — The Times has released its first poll of the 2022 midterm cycle. — Give this article- - - Read in app — In 2016, when The New York Times's pollsters asked Americans whether they planned to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, more than 10 percent said they would not support either one.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
As worries about Biden in 2024 grow, other Democrats aren't stepping forward to challenge him
As worries about Biden in 2024 grow, other Democrats aren't stepping forward to challenge him
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Voters' Eagerness to Reelect Incumbents Near Lows
U.S. Voters' Eagerness to Reelect Incumbents Near Lows
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Just Security:
Strongest Evidence of Guilt: Chart Tracking Trump's Knowledge and Intent in Efforts to Overturn the Election — The January 6th House Select Committee has produced substantial evidence about former President Donald Trump's knowledge and beliefs as he tried to overturn the 2020 election.
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Oath Keepers lawyer says Stewart Rhodes wanted her Trump contacts before Jan. 6 Capitol attack — The Jan. 6 Committee will explore links between the Trump White House and right-wing militia groups on Tuesday. They've spoken to Kellye SoRelle, who might be a key.
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Andrew Weissmann / New York Times:
Merrick Garland Should Investigate Trump's 2020 Election Schemes as a ‘Hub and Spoke’ Conspiracy — The tenacious work of the Jan. 6 committee has transformed how we think about the Jan. 6 rebellion. It should also transform the Justice Department's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
January 6 hearing to focus on Trump's tweet to extremist group
January 6 hearing to focus on Trump's tweet to extremist group
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump lawyer interviewed with FBI about Bannon contempt case — Former President Donald Trump's attorney Justin Clark interviewed with federal investigators two weeks ago, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing early Monday morning, a significant development that could reverberate …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Steve Bannon's ‘eleventh-hour’ reversal on Jan. 6 testimony is a stunt, DOJ says — WASHINGTON - One week ahead of jury selection in Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress trial, the Justice Department said the Trump associate's purported desire to reverse his stance and testify …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
New faces begin to surface as possible Trump 2024 key players
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ron DeSantis Would Kill Democracy Slowly and Methodically … During the Donald Trump era, democracy itself has become the preeminent question of American politics. Yet Trump himself has played a paradoxical role in this development. While his overtly authoritarian personality brought …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Team Normal Is Doing It Again — When it feels icky they'll dish out another anonymous quote. — Herschel Walker is, by any measure, a flawed candidate. It's a fact readily observable to anyone with a basic familiarity with his confessed history of self-harm, acts of violence against others …
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Jennifer Orsi / Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
From the editor: Guest column about Proud Boys did not meet our standards — To our readers: — The Herald-Tribune erred Sunday in publishing a guest column on our opinion page and website with the headline “Attacking Proud Boys does disservice to caring parents.”
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The Guardian:
The Uber whistleblower: I'm exposing a system that sold people a lie — Exclusive: Mark MacGann says he has decided to speak out about firm to ‘right some fundamental wrongs’ — ark MacGann, a career lobbyist who led Uber's efforts to win over governments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
State-level abortion laws threaten to split Republicans and boost Democrats — The opposition to abortion that unified Republicans for a generation is poised to disintegrate, with internecine battles arising over how far the party should go with laws affecting when a woman could terminate her pregnancy.
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Misty Severi / Washington Examiner:
Future college students rethink schools in states banning abortions
Future college students rethink schools in states banning abortions
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New York Times:
New York's Top Judge Is Moving On: 'I've Made My Contribution' — Judge Janet DiFiore, after more than six years on the court, and whose legacy includes a sweeping opinion on gerrymandering, will leave her post at the end of August. — Give this article- - - Read in app
Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Is Investigating PGA Tour Over Potential Antitrust Violations in LIV Golf Battle — The probe shows that the DOJ is watching the PGA Tour's fight to retain players in the face of new competition from the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit — The Department of Justice …
Ned Foley / Election Law Blog:
The Independent State Legislature Doctrine and Election Subversion: Avoiding Misunderstanding — Dan linked to Jessica Levinson's MSNBC's opinion piece with the unfortunate title How the Supreme Court could make it legal to steal the next presidential election.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Are We Looking At Another Civil War? — Consider the logic of the left and it's no wonder that many people are considering the unspeakable - whether America will devolve into actual violent conflict. But I dare speak about it at length in my brand-new book We'll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America …
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Democrat Tim Ryan chases after Fox News viewers in Ohio Senate race — Rep. Tim Ryan — a Democrat angling to flip what many believed would be a safe Republican Senate seat in increasingly red Ohio — is unsubtly ratcheting up his efforts to woo GOP voters.
Elizabeth Kim / Gothamist:
Affordable housing in one of NYC's most expensive neighborhoods becomes litmus test in competitive congressional race — The idea seemed like a pipe dream. — But in the highly competitive race for the open 10th Congressional District seat, a grassroots advocacy campaign calling …
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Paul Ryan was ‘sobbing’ as he watched the US Capitol attack unfold, new book says — Washington (CNN)Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was “sobbing” as he watched the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol unfold on television, a new book reports. — Ryan, who has criticized former President Donald Trump …
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Edgar Sandoval / New York Times:
For Uvalde Families, a Call for Answers Grows Louder — At City Council meetings and at a protest on Sunday, the relatives of the slain children and teachers have shown their anger and frustration. — Give this article- - - Read in app — UVALDE, Texas — Kimberly Rubio and her husband …
Moira Donegan / Not the Fun Kind:
Potemkin Feminism — We were told the big battles had been won. They hadn't. — We were told a lie about feminism. We were told that it had won. — By “we,” I mean women like me—the mostly white, mostly middle-class millennials who grew up in the 90s and 2000s.
Rolling Stone:
MAGA Preacher Sean Feucht Scored Millions From His Trump-Loving Flock — He's also pulling in millions for his ministry — and recently bought houses in Southern California and Montana — As the Supreme Court was handing down its decision to end a constitutional right to abortion …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
States With Abortion Bans Risk Losing Their Economic Edge — The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has prompted Democratic governors to pitch their states as better alternatives for business. — Give this article- - - Read in app — As a group of conservative states …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
An expert in political violence urgently warns: The worst is coming — Listen — Gift Article — The Jan. 6 House select committee hearings this week are among the most important of all, because they will foreground a topic that many Americans ordinarily don't associate with their democracy …